Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-26 Thread luc . linux
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 04:09:47PM -0700, a...@bellandwhistle.net wrote: Andrew Ardill andrew.ard...@gmail.com writes: As a data point, I have seen people add .gitignore to their .gitignore file, as they don't want to share the file. Right, I've seen that too. That something I am actually

Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-26 Thread
On 04/22/2014 06:54 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Interesting. It will break immediately when the project starts wanting to distribute its canonical ignore list If that happens, that's a problem caused by the project wanting to misuse .gitignore. There are good practices and bad practices.

Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-25 Thread alex
Andrew Ardill andrew.ard...@gmail.com writes: As a data point, I have seen people add .gitignore to their .gitignore file, as they don't want to share the file. Right, I've seen that too. It confused the heck out of me. It only lends credence to my point about the docs. Those users want the

Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Andrew Ardill andrew.ard...@gmail.com writes: As a data point, I have seen people add .gitignore to their .gitignore file, as they don't want to share the file. Interesting. It will break immediately when the project starts wanting to distribute its canonical ignore list, but until that time,

Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-21 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 18 April 2014 10:36, a...@bellandwhistle.net wrote: Like the $GIT_DIR/info/exclude file, gitignore files specify intentionally untracked files that Git should ignore. The difference is that files matched by a pattern in a gitignore file will be untracked for all users of the repository.

Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-17 Thread alex
On 2014-04-16 16:45, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, a...@bellandwhistle.net wrote: In particular, 'exclude' is spottily documented. Where did you expect to read about it? I see some mention of .git/info/exclude in the gitignore(5) page, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's room for

Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-16 Thread Junio C Hamano
a...@bellandwhistle.net writes: Any clarification on the differences much appreciated: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23097368/git-ignore-vs-exclude-vs-assume-unchanged/23097509 Please don't force people to refer to external site. The .gitignore and .git/info/exclude are the two UIs to

gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-16 Thread alex
Any clarification on the differences much appreciated: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23097368/git-ignore-vs-exclude-vs-assume-unchanged/23097509 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-16 Thread alex
On 2014-04-16 10:51, Junio C Hamano wrote: a...@bellandwhistle.net writes: Any clarification on the differences much appreciated: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23097368/git-ignore-vs-exclude-vs-assume-unchanged/23097509 Please don't force people to refer to external site. The

Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

2014-04-16 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, a...@bellandwhistle.net wrote: In particular, 'exclude' is spottily documented. Where did you expect to read about it? I see some mention of .git/info/exclude in the gitignore(5) page, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's room for improvement there (improvements welcome).